Example sentences for: flocked

How can you use “flocked” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When Protestants were persecuted in the 16th century, they flocked here from all around Europe to take refuge.

  • Last year, for example, during global crisis, investors flocked to the 30-year Treasury bond but were totally unwilling to buy the 29-year bond, even though the difference in risk between the two assets was presumably minimal.

  • ("Picasso was born in 1881," notes James Fenton in the New York Review of Books . "To accuse a man of cowardice for not having joined up in 1939 when he was in his late fifties strikes me as a complete novelty, and it would have been a novelty to those Allied soldiers who, on the liberation of Paris, flocked to Picasso's studio as a place of pilgrimage."

  • Naturists flocked to the area.

  • People were drawn to the new capital like bees to a honey-pot, and throughout the 19th century the dispossessed of the economically floundering Aegean islands flocked here to find work.


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